On Mar 9, 7:43 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Friendly fire mixup: MS identifies Windows as Mac
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> | In what might be described as a "Friendly Fire" incident, Microsoft
> | software has identified a copy of Windows as a hostile operating system
> | - belonging to enemy Apple forces.
> |
> | The host software, Virtual PC 2007, promptly disabled the intruder.
> |
> | It's not the first time Microsoft has incorrectly identified its own
> | software - and shot it down.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Microsoft seems to have enormous problems with old stuff in general. In the
> | Comes anti-trust case, it emerged that two dozen libraries were shipping
> | with Windows, for which Microsoft couldn't produce the source code.
> |
> | Maybe the dog ate it?
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/09/friendly_fire_virtual_pc/
Hmmm, just read that. Seems more to be a bug in v6 of windows
update. MS doesn't support win9x with updates anymore. If you look
at the comments, the work around was to change the v6 to v4 in the
address bar - basically pointing at the older version of windows
update.
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Tom Shelton
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